for which he was awarded Russia's highest theatre prize for visual art, the Golden Mask Award, as Best Choreographer. He received the Choo San Goh Award for Choreography for The Gentle Chapters and was nominated for the highest dance prize of the Netherlands, The Golden Swan Award, as Best Choreographer for 00:00. For his re-imagining of Faun(e), created for the English National Ballet's Ballets Russes Festival at the Sadler's Wells in London, Dawson was nominated Best Classical Choreographer for the UK Critics' Circle National Dance Award and the Prix Benois de la Danse Choreography Award in 2010. David Dawson and his Faun(e) were featured in the BBC documentary For Art's Sake: The Story of the Ballets Russes. Dawson has created numerous ballets internationally, including his full-length Giselle, which had its world premiere at the Dresden Semperoper. Amongst other significant works are day4, On the Nature of Daylight, The World According to Us, Morning Ground, Das Verschwundene|The Disappeared, A Sweet Spell of Oblivion, dancingmadlybackwards, and timelapse/(Mnemosyne) and The Third Light. Between 2004 and 2012 David Dawson was resident choreographer for the Dutch National Ballet, the Dresden Semperoper Ballet and the Royal Ballet of Flanders. His creations have been introduced to the repertoires of the Boston Ballet, Ballet National de Marseilles, Het (Dutch) Nationale Ballet, Dresden SemperOper Ballett, English National Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Hungarian National Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, West Australian Ballet, Aalto Ballet Theatre Essen, Slovenian National Ballet, Ballet du Capitole, Vienna State Opera Ballet. Dawson's works have been performed in more than 25 countries and have entered repertoires of many ballet companies. Choreographic style Dawson's work is based in the vocabulary of classical ballet and, though Dawson disagrees with the association, is often said to be influenced by William Forsythe. Dawson's website claims that his "personal choreographic style transforms classical ballet in new ways, and his signature works are atmospheric, emotionally physical, abstract/narrative pieces that have been praised by critics and audiences worldwide." He is quoted as saying that he is inspired by "everything that has ever existed and everything that exists now." Creations 2015 - Empire Noir 2015 - Tristan + Isolde 2013 - The Human Seasons 2013 - Opus.11 2013 - 5 2013 - Overture 2012 - day4 2011 - somewhere music is playing... 2011 - timelapse/(Mnemosyne)